Quotes About Creativity

I loved character actresses like Julie Walters and Alison Steadman, films like 'Nuts in May' and 'Educating Rita.' And I never get tired of watching Larry David and 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.'

To put it in a nutshell, I'm known for basically killin' the rhymes, you know what I'm sayin,' goin' for it.

Oakland's got a lot of character.

Oakland has always had artists attempting to define the immense beauty and ridiculousness around them.

Oakland has always been my muse.

I could have been an artist painting pictures and I would have fell in love with Oakland.

I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.

I liked bands like Oasis and The Prodigy.

Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative.

I'm not trying to obey the rules of radio.

There are so many rules about how you make a film and so many conventions that you can and can't do. I think people have forgotten that they are just rules that were invented for convenience - sometimes it is more convenient not to obey the rules.

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.

I need human feelings to fit garments. I couldn't do it just, like, on an object - it's too close to our body. It's like a skin you are making, so you need one's feelings to make a garment.

If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is the fact that it's 2,600 or so years old, and it was done by a human being at that time who you have such a limited ability to grasp - and yet you have this enormous ability to grasp.

I love bringing the inanimate object to life.

I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.

I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to create an aesthetic object.

I don't really know what the Great American Novel is. I like the idea that there could be one now, and I wouldn't object if someone thought it was mine, but I don't claim to have written that - I just wrote my book.

We have a double agenda of trying to deliver something exciting that people will talk about and will brighten their day and will amaze people and make us proud to have created an object of beauty. And on the other hand being true to the story.

What my whole object was is not to really sell records. I was trying to sell songs.

Whether or not you like an object, it's the product of an individual person making decisions about things. That's what makes it interesting.

I always liked the challenge of that, how to take an inanimate object and build something around it that's scary.

Art is the objectification of feeling.